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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 7, 1935,
The Butler Herald
Established in 187ti
SOME
TFS” IN AMERICAN
HISTORY
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
O. E. COX, Business Manager
K. It. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt.
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Published every Thursday
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hunaied Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION $1 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Someone points out that usually
when a woman marries for money
the husband lasts longer than the
money.
Men are funny guys. See by the
papers where one who nad not
kissed his wife in live years kilted
another fellow who did.
The U. S. Treasury report recently
submitted to Congress shows that tax
refunds to individuals and corpora
tions last year totaled $48,664,200.
It is said that knocking never gets
you a: ything but did you ever notice
how often those congressmen and
senators with hammers get re-elect
ed to office V If you tried you might
perhaps be able to bring it closer
home than that.
Huey Long looms as a menace on
the political horizon to many. His un-
parulelled conceit carries him to ex
tremes few men attempt. Those who | Jf Columbus hud not studied as-
| really fear Huey will do well to re- tronomy and geography, also if he
member that Long's Undoing lies in ha(J yie , (ie(1 tl) the threats of his sail-
I his very ruthlessness and high handed ors> WO uld no t have discovered
I ness. Natures like Lon#’ know no America,
moderation. One outbreak lead to an- j , f jJ hn Cabot had not dis-
others with the result that with each covere< j the continent of North
outbreak a new lot of supporters is Americ8i Great Britain would have
I lost ' ln the course of time a fair had no claim for the establishment of
sized opposition develops. History is colonies in America.
full of similar examples.What Long’s
[friends regard as his strength will
prove his very undoing,
These are rather harsh words com
ing from a gentleman as we know
the writer to be but well may we
ponder the remarks of “Uncle
Shack” in his Oglethorpe Echo, who
in part says: “The whole country is
siimply dumbfounded at the robberies,
burglaries and such other ways the
criminal element is resorting to to
get what the other fellow has with
out gi>ing anything in return there
for Due efforts are made in most in
stances to apprehend such robbers
and bring them to justice; but we
have among us robbers and robbers
that we allow to ply their nefarious
acts at will. Candidly we Tiave more
If France hud kept out of the Ohio
Valley, thre would not have been the
“Frei ch and Indian War.”
If General Braddock had heeded
the avice of Washington, he would
not have met disaster.
If General Wolf had not climbed
the precipes to the Heights of Abra
ham, Great Britain would not have
won Canada.
If General Howe had not disre
garded orders, fought the "Battle of
Brandywine” and captured Philadel
phia, the colonies would have lost the
Revolution.
I Washington had not crossed the
Delaware, his cause would have been
If the Patriots had not won the
“Battle of King’s Mountain,” Corn-
An exchange states: “A man should
save enough to take care of his fam
ily, enough to school his children,
enough to take care of his old age.
That’s all the saving anyone needs to
do.” That, by the way, is about all
the saving most men are able to do.
The farmer who toils faithfully,
theerful'ly and bravely tor the next
ft.w months, will, at the end of the
year look back on 1935 as a year
without a cloud or a fog on his fin
ancial horizon, and ready to put his
shoulder to he wheel with others foi
te progress an« upbuilding of the
community.
Most people who are transgressing
the code, both .civil and moral, think
they are getting by with it and that
no one suspects them. As a rule they
have gotten themselves in a frame of
mind where they justify themselves
in their conduct and from their view
point it is not regarded as a trans
gression. To them their case is dif
ferent.
A country newspaper can be run
no better than the public support.
It takes money to run a newspaper.
If you want to know who ure enter
prising consult the lists of the county
paper and see who take the paper
and who pay promptly. A newspaper
office is the best place in the world
to find out who is reliable and who
ain’t as public spirited citizens.—
Franklin News and Banner.
leaped for the thug who halts his wa,,is would P™hably not have been
victim on the street and makes him captured.
give up is wealth or takes the risk I H France, Spain and Holland had
of breaking into one’s house and not fought Great Britain as our al-
helping himself to what he lir.ds than . *' es ’ wp wou ' d n °t bave won freedom
we have for the robbers who adroit- ard independence,
ly takes that which belongs to an- ; W George T ' lir, | ha<1 treated the
other and yet mingles with us in thirteen colonies justly and with the
safety. The thug at least shows nerve P ro P cr consideration, there would n I
while the latter simply depends upon , have been a Revolution,
his check to get him across. We re- ! It George Rogers Clarice had not
fer to the many, and they seem to captured Ba kaskia ard Vincennes,
come mighty near including every- Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana
body these days, who inveigle people atl( i Ohio would have been a part ot
into crediting them and then show Canada.
no disposition or effort to meet the . If Lewis ard Clarke had not ex
obligation. He robs his victims just as plored the “Oregon Country,” Wash-
does the hold-up thug or the house- ington and Oregon would have been
breaker; he takes that which belongs | a nart of Canada,
to another without giving any re- ! If Jefferson had rot bought Louis-
compense; he goes further and lies iana, the Mississippi River would he
to his victims when he promises to the western boundary of the U. S.
pay for what he gets while the thug If Commodore Perry had not won
makes no false statements or prom- the Battle of Lake Erie, Michigan
ises. Should he not, therefore, be less would have been a part of Canada
respected by the public than is the ' If Gen. Andrew Jackson had not
thug? Should he not be more disre- won the Battle of New Orleans, the
spected? Should he not come under British would probably have taken
the bane of criminal law as much as, the great Louisiana Territory by con
quest.
If Gen. Sam Houston had not re
strained has soldiers ard saved the
life of Gen. Santa Anna, Texas would
not have g'ained her independence.
If Eli Whitney had not invented
Once America’s pride, the “little the cotton gin, there would not have
red schoolhouse,” with- its barn-like , been the “War Between the States.”
if not more than, the house break-
FEWER SCHOOLHOUSES AND
BETTER SCHOOLS
If Thomas Jefferson had not cone
tended for “States’ Rights”, there
would not have been the “Cavil War. ’
If General Albert Sidney Johnson
had not been killed at Shiloh, Grant’s
probably have been
captured, and there
“Siege
United States Treasury officials
are working apace with plans to
launch issues of government bonds
in denominations as low as $25 in or
der to appeal to and meet the needs
of small investors. The move is a
commendable one from several an
gles. It will not only give the pur
chaser a high degree of security for
his savings but will give him a di
rect and palpable interest in the fi
nancial stability of the Government
of the nation in which he is a citi
zen and voter.
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the divi
sion of investigation in the Depart
ment of Justice, in a pamphlet dis
tributed by the New York State
Chamber of Commerce, charges that
crime was the biggest industry in
the United States. “Stealing, kid
naping, robbing, thieving and murder
ing” is a $15,000,DIM),000 a year busi
ness, he said. Urging citizens to un
ite in a war on criminals and their
political ar.d legal allies, Mr. Hoover
declared the parole system was be
coming a “major menace.”
According to the Philadelphia In
quirer, Pennsylvania has her pardon
and parole trouble. Recently many
dastardly crimes have been commit
ted by pardoned and paroled con
victs. The Inquirer does not under
stand the sentencing of convicted
criminals to long terms of punish
ment, and then having them pardon
ed or paroled after only a brief serv
ice of sentence. And one of tne
things hard for us to understand is
that it is not the poor fellow in for
some minor offense who is pardoned
or paroled but the big criminal serv
ing for some serious offense. If this
excessive use of the pardoning power
keeps up, the legislatures will be
forced to provide some other way foi
the exercise of executive clemency.
single room and primitive equipment
is slowly but surely passing. More
than 10,000 of these small district
school buildings were abandoned in
the past few years, their places be
ing taken by the modem consolidated army would
school. [ crushed and
With the rapiil extension of good would ptobably have been no
roads and the employment of motor of Vicksburg.”
busses for the transportation of chil- 1 If Gen. Bragg’s orders could have
dren to these larger institutions, it been carried out, the Northern army
seems inevitable that the one-room could probably have been whipped
school, with its many handicaps, will and captured in detail, and there
eventually disappear. | would not have been the Battle of
While the district school must thus ] Chickamauga.
give place to a new and better sys- | If Wood’s Division of the Northern
tern, it has filled a paramount role in I army had not made the “Fatal Gap”
the advancement of the nation To at Chickamauga, the Confederate ar-
t,he self-sacrificing labors of faithful , my would probably have been de-
teachers in these rural schools many j feated.
amous men and women owe their | if General Lee had not lost his
early education and inspiration. j p] a n of battle in his Maryland cam-
But the demands of progress must paign, which was found by McClel-
be met in education, as well as in all ] a n, his first invasion of the North
other phases of our increasingly com- j might have been successful,
plex civilization. The new and larger j if L ee had had Stonewall Jackson
consolidated school, with its staff of a t Gettysburg, he would very prob-
better prepared teachers, its 1m- ably have succeeded, and possibly
proved organization and its modern could have made peace with the
equipment will mark an advance over North.
If Commodore Dewey had not won
at the “Battle of Manila Bay” we
should not have the Phillipir.e Is
lands.
If Gen. Joe Wheeler had not disre
garded the orders of Gen. Shafter to
retreat, the Battle of Santiago might
not have been won.
If Germany had not illegall> used
the “little red school chouse,” which
must make for a more enlightened
and efficient citizenship.
NERVY SALES METHODS
Local business and professional
men are ftequently annoyed by mail
order firms which send them goods
not ordered, with a request that the c ” T‘"T 1 ’ " , ,7”' I - '
, 1 . , „ her submarines, we should not have
been in the World War.
merchandise be either paid for or re
turned. Such sales methods are en
tirely indefensible.
It is unfair to place upon a busy
man the burden of wrapping and re
mailing stuff lie does not want, yet
the average person, feels an obliga
tion to pay for it or send it back
This method of alleged salesmanship
no doubt produces results, or it
would not he resorted to by the con
cerns which practice it,
The above paragraphs can be tak
en as subjects for historical essays
by the school boys and girls of Tayl
lor county.
Pastor Marshall Nelms of Sardis
church, Hart county, is thoroughly
' “sold” on the “God’s Acre” plan of
! raising ■ money. His church produced
I in 1934 fifteen hales of cotton which
One way of handling such cases is ' cotton when solll > together with the
reported by a Michigan paper. A doc- j seeed, totaled about one-half of the
tor was sent $10 worth of cigars ; amount set up in the church budget
with a request to try them and re- ■ for that year. As a result the church
mit if satisfied. In case he did not was able to P a y seven hundred dol-
snioke, it was suggested that the doc- ' ars on *t- s church debt and this pay-
tor could find some frier.d who would men t liquidated a mortgage amount-
be glad to take them off his hands. I in g to two thousand dollars. In ad-
The doctor wrote in reply: j dition all local expenses were paid,
“Cigars received. I enclose in pay- , about five hundred dollars were giv-
ment two prescriptions well worth en to the co-operative program and
$10. If you do not need them, you tbe churoh treasurer , had a balance
’ ' of over one hundred dollars on Jan-
THE BLASPHEMY OK LIQUOR
(By Nat G. Long)
That which cripples the bodies,
mars the minds, and ruins the souls
of men and women not oi.ly thus de
bauches humanity; it blasphemes God.
Ic is the duty of Christians to de
stroy any such blasphemous thing.
Such a horrible evil' is liquor. The
Christian church can be true to God
cnly by fighting it to a finish. One
cf the most needed things is to face
the awful facts about liquor.
First, let us ask, what is alcohol?
Science says that alcohol is not a
stimulant as many thought for hun
dreds of years, but a depressant.
One’s heart beats faster .after drink
ing alcohol. This is not due to any
stimulating effect but to the fact that
the alcohol has puralyzed the nerve
centers that control the rate of the
1 eart-beat, and the heurt is more or
less running wild. It is like releas
ing the brakes on a car and allowing
it to go pell-mell down, the hill. Alco
hol has been thought to be a food.
Food increases the working power of
muscles and bruin, aids one in en-
dming physical strain, maintains the
warmth <>f the body, and helps the
body to resist disease; alcohol does
just the exact opposite of every thing
that food rices. For over a hundred
years medical authorities have de
clared that alcohol is a poison. Typi
cal of hundreds of quotations from
authorities of every civilized country
is this from Dr. Emil Bogen, “No
other poison..causes so many deaths,
or leads to or intensifies so many dis
eases, both physical and mental, as
does alcohol in the various forms in
which it is taken.”
How does alcohol affect man’s
body ? Alcohol is a protoplasmic poi
son. The structural unit of the hu
man body is the .cell. The cell itself
is i microscopic bit of complex, jelly-
like substance called protoplasm. Sur
rounding the ceil is a protective
membrane The membrane separates
the cell from adjacent cells. Through
the membrane oxygen ar.d nourish
ment pass into the cell; through the
membrane waste matters pass out. In
a sense, the membrane protects the
cell from certain injurious substances
that get into the blood stream. Thir
teen trillion cells make up the human
structure. Alcohol dissolves the mem
brane and paralyzes the cell. Thus,
says Atticus Webb, alcohol “is the
poison that strikes the very founda
tion of our physical existence and
damages the material that enters
into it.” Very readily alcohol 1s
taken up from the stomach into the
blood stream and thus is driven con
tinuously around to damage the cells
of a man’s body. ,
Alcohol retards digestion. It leads
to chronic inflamation of the lining
of the stomach, causing gastrtis and
other disorders. It may lead to chron
ic catarrh ar.d the failure of the di
gestive juices. This leads to the ab
sorption from the alimentary canal
of poisonous matters. Alcohol over
works and impairs the liver.Sir Thos.
Oliver, British specialist, says, “Six
ty to eighty per cent of all casses
of cirrhosis of the liver are due di
rectly or indirectly to alcohol.” Brit
ish authorities declare that alcohol
contributes to the development ol
Bright’s disease, to the degeneration
of the blood venssels, which leads to
apoplexy, and that it promotes fatty
degeneration of the heart. Alcohol
greatly injures the tissues of the
brain.
Alcohol impairs the .capacity oi the
white blood cells to destroy germs; it
reduces the .power of the anti-toxins
and the resistance of the red blood
cells. Consequently when a drinker is
injured he has less chance to recover
than the nor.-drinker. The cells of
the drinker may be so weakened that
they cannot fight off infection and
build new tissues. Tests have shown
that the wounds of drinkers taxe
three to four times longer to heal
than those of non-drinkers. Blood
poison is three to four times as like
ly to set in with drinkers as with
non-drinkers. A great industry kept
records of its 1 injured men. Drinkers
had a death rate of 4 to 1 compared
with that of non-drinkers. Alcohol
greatly reduces the resistance of the
body against all diseases. A French
autsority says, “Alcohol prepares the
soil for tuberculosis.”
One of the most appalling mistakes
that drinkers make is to think that
alcohol will help combat cold. Alco
hol does give a quick feeling of
can sell them to some friend.”
luary I, 1935.
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i Thousands rely upon Doan’s.
They are praised the country over.
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warmth, but what actually happer.e
is this: The human body has a sys
tem of nerves which regulate the
teiibion of the blood vessels at the
surface of the skin. On a hot day the
nerves relux the tension and allow
a large amount of blood to flow to
the surface of the skin to be cooled.
On a cold day, the nerves increase
the tension, and force the blood from
the surface away from the cooler air
intc the interior of the body which
ij warmer. Naturally, then, to com
bat a cold one would want to make
his blood warmer, and to avoid any
thing that will actually make his
body colder. Alcohol actually makes
one’s body colder. Alcohol paralyzes
the nerves which control the surface
tension. The tension is thus relaxed.
The blood flows to the surface where
it is cooled more and more. Alcohol
dulls all the senses of body. The
drinker feels warmer because his
sense of feeling is dulled by the alco
hol and because his blood is flowing
right at the surftfee at the very time
when it ought to be forced to the
interior. Instead of helping to com
bat cold, alcohol helps cold to get a
better hold. British authorities de
clare that alcohol causes one to be
especially susceptible to pneumonia.
Alcohol robs men of physical en
durance. Sir Frederick Treves,
speaking of the soldiers of the Boar
war, said, “In. that enormous column
of 30,(A)0 men, the fiirst who dropped
out were not the tall men, or the
short men, or the big men, or the
little men.—they were the drinkers,
and they dropped out as clearly as
if they had been labelled with a big
‘D’ on their backs.” Two groups of
soldiers were given beer, the other
water. The group with beer gave out
more quickly and did less work. Ath
letes of every kind have rejected al
cohol. Connie Mack, Knute Rockne,
Alonzo Stagg, Bill Tilden, Jack
Dempsey, Gene Tunney are a few of
the celebrated athletes all of whom
have spumed alcohol because it de-
ctroys physical endurance.
The records of 42 life insurance
companies show unmistakably that
alcohol shortens life. They show that
men who drink on the average of twr
glasses of beer a day have a mor
tality rate 18 per cent higher th
the average; the occasional heav |
drinkei has a mortality 60 per cen ,
| higher than the average; and ^ I
I steady moderate drinker has a ni0 . !
j tality of 86 per cent higher than Z
J average. Note that the life insurant
companies declare that the steady I
moderate drinker lives a shorter tLm#
than those who ure occasional liea.v'
drinkers.
Much has been said 1 in praise i>>
the moderate drinker. But alcohol I
being u protoplasmic poison, it ,
cumulative. Alcohol regularly taken
into the body will gradually poi^
•he cells. One authority declares tha,
i tne person who occasionally gets deal
|drunk, and then lets liquor alone for
weeks or months is not nearly in s ,
much danger as the one who drinkj I
regularly. (This does not say th it I
there are not terrible effects fro.nl
the occasional spree). Moderate!
drinking slowly injures every organ
of the body. Dr. C. C. Weeks, English
! authority on alcohol, declares that a',.
' coholism is one of the four great
health scourges of modem civiliza
tion'—-cancer, tuberculosis, and ven-
eral diseases, being the other three.
Ellis G Arnall, representative from
Coweta county and speaker pro-tem
of the house of representatives, re
ceived last week the distinguished
Service Cross of the United States
1 Junior Chamber of Commerce for his
work last year as president oi the
i Georgia Junior Chamber.
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Are YOU Satisfied
Present Tax System?
DO YOU WAINT
TAX BELIEF
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I he present Georgia Legislature has not yet passed any tax
relief bills. The County Commissioners' Association and the
Mayors Association through their organizations w Mla.itn
are attempting to confuse the minds ol the Legislators as to (lie
effect of tax relief. We believe the particular officials who are
responsible for this effort are actuated by their own selfish in
terest rather than the welfare of their people.
♦
The Governor and Legislators have heard and are hearing
from these associations. They have not heard from you. The
views of selfish politicians will not weigh heavily with this
Governor and Legislature if only they can hear from the people
*
HAVE THEY HEARD FROM YOU? This matter of taxes on
real estate vitally concerns your pocket book. You can’t
afford not to express your opinion!
If you haven’t time to write a full letter, simply clip this
coupon and mail it today to the Senator or Representative
from your district, c/o State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. DO
NOT DELAY.
To..
(Insert Name of Senator or Representative)
I urge tax relief and tax reform NOW.
Name
City
County
This communication is from the Georgia Real Estate Tax Bayers’
Association.
R. C. NEELY, Waynesboro, Ga., President.
T. P. SAFFOLD, Ex. V.P., Savannah, Ga.